1699.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 199 



that he had purchased a small parcel of land at Chester, " called 

 the Green, w*^*" Lyes very commodious for buildin^^ a town. It 

 fronts to both Chester Creek k delaware river, and is protracted, 

 & a market place Laid out, with Streets by y' Surveyor General, 

 as by the mapp to the said petition annex't appears."' He asked 

 the board " to allow and confirm the s** model as the law in that 

 case directs." But in this he was opposed by Jasper Yeates, who 

 regarded the Green as church land, and was unwilling that David 

 Lloyd should " obtain an act of Assembly to strengthen a pre- 

 tended title of his to the green Lying before Upland." So the 

 matter rested for the present. 



The inhabitants of Chichester [Marcus Hook] this year peti- 

 tioned the Council, " requesting a weeklie markett k two fairs in 

 the year ; after a full debate y''upon, The Leivt. Gor & Council 

 granted y" a weeklie market on fridays, to be kept in Broad 

 street as is desired." 



Edward Shippen, Cornelius Emptson, and William Biles, as 

 Judges, held a Provincial Court this year at Chester, assisted by 

 the County Justices. After John Moore and David Lloyd, as 

 attorneys, had had " several debates about the cause depending," 

 the parties " referred the matter wholly to three Judges on the 

 benches as arbitrators," the parties to be bound by the decision, 

 which was immediately made. 



At the June Court, Joseph Edge, the Constable of Chester, 

 presented Henry Barnes, "for calling om- Governor Penn a 

 Rogue," &c., &c. The rest of the constables returned " all was 

 well." For very many years, after this date, the same return 

 was made, when a constable had no breach of the peace to re- 

 port. It was also a practice to read the newly enacted laws, in 

 open Court, immediately after the Grand Jury was called. 



The last road laid out by a Grand Jury was from the neigh- 

 borhood of Birmingham and Thornbury to Joseph Cobourn's 

 mill and Caleb Pusey's mill, the report of which was made to the 

 June Court. The same Court made the first appointment of six 

 viewers to lay out a road in the manner now practiced. The 

 appointment was to lay out "a convenient cart road," for 

 Robert Smith of Darby. 



The Court ordered, " that two supervisors, to witt, Thomas Fox 

 of Darby, and Matthias Morton of Ridlye, to make good that 

 new road from Walter Fawcet's fence to Darby, sixty foot wide."' 



If the people of Chester did fail in obtaining permission to 

 build a bridge over the creek, they were determined to divert 

 some share of the travel of the King's road through their town. 



' This map has not been found. For the conveyance of this land to David Lloyd, 

 the written npsent of the Swedish congrregation of Crane Hook to the sale, and an 

 extract of the indemnifying bond given on the occasion, see Appendix, Note K. 



